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CBS chief Mel Karmazin is tight-lipped with the press, but that doesn’t stop us from reading his lips on occasion. So I stood near him and eavesdropped on his conversation with a fellow broadcaster at the Center for Communication lunch honoring Howard Stringer the other day. They were talking about another Howard – Mel’s top-rated radio star, Howard Stern, who has been threatening to quit K-Rock when his contract expires soon. “It won’t happen,” Karmazin said. “Howard and I have been together too long, through too much, to have a parting of the ways.”